Staff iOS Engineer

HomeAway, based in Austin, Texas, is the world leader in vacation rentals with more than 2 million unique places to stay in 190 countries, and is a part of the Expedia, Inc. family of brands. HomeAway offers an extensive selection of vacation rental homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, especially more room to relax, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. The company also makes it easy for vacation rental owners and property managers to advertise their properties and manage bookings online.

About our iOS Teams:

With a mobile team co-located in Austin, Texas, we're seeking an empathetic, hard-working, experienced and continually learning iOS software engineer. HomeAway mobile offers a suite of traveler and partner apps. The traveler apps help travelers plan, book and enjoy their dream vacation while the partner apps enable partners to seamlessly lead their vacation rental business. You will play a vital role in furthering our partner-facing iOS app.

You will love this role if you're looking for an environment:

That challenges you to think deeply about software architectural choices

That encourages you to invest time into your craft and self-improvement, including time for reading books and attending conferences

Where the best solution for the job is the right tool for the job, and you'll have the opportunity to influence these decisions

Where UX design isn't an afterthought

Where smart risk-taking is encouraged

Where processes exist only to help the team progress

Where you have a tangible opportunity to impact people's lives in a positive way

Where diversity is valued, where empathy is offered, and where an individual's needs are treated with utmost respect

Challenges and Opportunities include:

Messaging features to enable prompt communication with travelers and facilitate seamless and accurate booking

Reservation coordination features that allow our owners to view and manage the availability of their properties, as well as their guest's bookings

Property management features that allow partners to list and manage their property—from content to pricing—and view analytics for their vacation-rental business relative to the market standard

Marketplace Feed features that ensure partners are always up to date with the most relevant, contextual information for their properties and travelers.

As an engineer of the iOS partner app team you'll play a meaningful role in ensuring our iOS partner app is a world-class offering. You will ensure that the app performs well, that each code change leaves the codebase maintainable, that the visual design is meticulously up to spec and ensure that the platform specific offerings of iOS are demonstrated for a truly native experience.

Successful contributors on the iOS Partner team exhibit more than just extraordinary technical prowess; they will possess uncanny product intuition, the ability to communicate effectively and they strive to be respectful and empathetic to everyone.

Required Skills and Experience:

5 - 8 years experience developing iOS apps

Experience shipping iOS apps to hundreds of thousands of customers

Ability to collaborate and drive for results cross-team in a complex working environment

We are currently experimenting with Node.js, GraphQL, and React Native

Benefits & Perks:

Competitive health and insurance benefits

Competitive salary

Annual target bonus or commission

Paid vacation and sick time

Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Free snacks and beverages

Frequent company update talks with our leadership team

Free listing on HomeAway.com

Electric, adjustable stand-up desk

Discounted Metro & Rail pass

Casual dress code

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Location

HomeAway has six offices in the Austin area with a 16-story global headquarters under construction at the Domain set to open in 2019.

An Insider's view of HomeAway

What’s the vibe like in the office?

Some of us have been working together for 5+ years and have been there for each other during engagements, births, divorces…you name it. They have truly been my second family and my coworkers are the best part of coming to the office every day.

Amanda

Director, B&B Sales and Supply

What projects are you most excited about?

As a Software Engineer, I’m excited to rebuild an old JavaScript and jQuery STAB component into a new React based component. The goal is to update this component to our new tech stack so when consuming applications move to using Catalyst based applications we can ease the integration process.

Juliana

Advertising Account Executive

What makes someone successful on your team?

Being a successful finance person means being a strong business partner and not only understanding what is happening throughout the business but also being insatiably curious about it. It’s not enough to just know math, or know the numbers; you need to know where those numbers come from, how they get there and what's driving that result.

Sharon

Sr. Director Global Finance Operations

How do your team's ideas influence the company's direction?

The Talent Acquisition team is always pitching innovative ideas at our 120-day planning sessions that directly impact the company and recruitment experience. It’s amazing to see how quickly we’re able to implement new ideas every 120 days and measure the results. We’ve seen everything from employee referral reform to self-defense classes in Austin.

Marisela

Director, Global Talent Acquisition

What projects are you most excited about?

I'm on a team that's investigating the integration of react-native into our existing mobile app and my focus is primarily on bridging our existing native analytics packages into the react-native side of things. This allows us to adapt and improve based on what customers do while using our product,

Andrew

Software UI Engineer

What are HomeAway Perks + Benefits

Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Disability Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Health Insurance Benefits

Life Insurance

Pet Insurance

Wellness Programs

Onsite Gym

Retirement & Stock Options Benefits

401(K) Matching

Company Equity

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Performance Bonus

Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits

Child Care Benefits

Generous Parental Leave

HomeAway offers up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave (yes, dads, too!) for eligible new parents with at least 1 year of service.

Family Medical Leave

Adoption Assistance

Vacation & Time Off Benefits

Generous PTO

Paid Volunteer Time

Sabbatical

Paid Holidays

9 paid holidays + 2 floating holidays you can take any time during the year.

Paid Sick Days

Perks & Discounts

Casual Dress

Commuter Benefits

Company Outings

Game Room

Stocked Kitchen

Parking

Fitness Subsidies

Professional Development Benefits

Job Training & Conferences

Diversity Program

Additional Perks + Benefits

We were recognized by the Austin American-Statesman for having the most generous parental leave in Austin!